Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vidalia, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Vidalia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Vidalia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Vidalia itself.
The rest sit in Higgston (1).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Vidalia GA (18). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Vidalia
The readers mapped around Vidalia break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Vidalia GA. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.
- North Street West — 2 readers
- North Street East — 2 readers
- McIntosh Street — 2 readers
- Orange Street — 1 reader
- Brice Drive — 1 reader
- Miracle Lane — 1 reader
- GA 292 — 1 reader
- US 280;GA 15;GA 29;GA 30 — 1 reader
- Adams Street — 1 reader
- Center Drive — 1 reader
- Aimwell Road — 1 reader
- North Loop Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Vidalia — all on the live map above.
Vidalia GA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Vidalia GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Vidalia in the Toombs County picture
Toombs County has 30 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #85 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 3.9% nationally. That’s across 26,943 residents and 697 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Vidalia GA (17).
What’s watching Vidalia
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Vidalia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Vidalia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Vidalia
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Vidalia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).